Cleanup

Enabled Cleanup Strategies

Specify a space-separated list of strategies that should be applied after encoding. You should specify at least MARK_SOURCE and UNIFIED_OUTPUT, otherwise clustercode will not behave as you’d expect.

Overwrite

This flag controls whether existing files should be overwritten. If set to false, a timestamp in the form of yyyy-MM-dd.HH-mm-ss will be added before the file extension.

Cleanup Strategies

Unified Output Directory

Specify UNIFIED_OUTPUT to put all converted files into /output without any subdirectories.

Structured Output Directory

Specify STRUCTURED_OUTPUT to recreate the input directory tree on the output root folder.

  • /input/0/movie1.mp4 → /output/movie.mp4

  • /input/1/movies/movie2.mkv → /output/movies/movie2.mkv

  • /input/1/movies/action/movie3.avi → /output/movies/action/movie3.mp4

The file extensions will be according to the profile.

Mark Source

Specify MARK_SOURCE to create the dummy file in the input folder next to the source file. If this file exists, clustercode knows that the media file has already been processed and can be skipped in the next scan.

  • For /input/0/movie1.mp4 a file named /input/0/movie1.mp4.done will be created.

  • For /input/0/series/sgnikiV/ep1.mp4 a file named /input/0/series/sgnikiV/ep1.mp4.done will be created.

Mark Source Dir

Specify MARK_SOURCE_DIR to create a dummy file similar to "Mark Source", but in its own directory specified by setting key CC_CLEANUP_MARK_SOURCE_DIR. This strategy will leave your input folders as they are. You could then mount the input folders as read-only, provided you change the default value for CC_CLEANUP_MARK_SOURCE_DIR (which is /input/done.

  • For /input/0/movie1.mp4 a file named /input/done/0/movie1.mp4.done will be created.

  • For /input/0/series/sgnikiV/ep1.mp4 a file named /input/done/0/series/sgnikiV/ep1.mp4.done will be created.

Delete Source

Specify DELETE_SOURCE as a strategy to delete the source files in the input directory. Obviously clustercode cannot find the file on the next scan and will thus not be processed a second time. Only use this option if you trust your ffmpeg profile.

Chown

Specify CHOWN to change owner of the output file. This strategy only works with Linux and if the current user is root. The file will be changed with chown CC_CLEANUP_CHOWN_USERID:CC_CLEANUP_CHOWN_GROUPID.